1. Chapter 9.3
A Bloody Conflict
Pgs

2. Combat in World War I Trench Warfare New Technology
New Technology changes tactics
Dirt stops bullets
“no man’s land”
Attacks cost hundreds of thousands of lives
Movie Clip
New Technology
Poisoned gas & gas masks
Tanks, artillery & machine guns
Zeppelins & planes
Combat in World War I

3. The Americans Arrive Winning the War at Sea Russia Leaves the War
Americans teach the Brits a thing or two
Convoys – lots of ships w/ an escort
Russia Leaves the War
Lenin gets control, the Czar is killed
Russia takes a bad peace to get out
The Americans Arrive

4. Cont. Americans Enter Combat
The AEF under the command of John Pershing
The British & French wanted to command out men
How might they use our men differently than we would?
We only give them a Division of African Americans
Cont.

5. Cont. Germany’s Last Offensive The Battle of the Argonne Forest
Tried a massive push to Paris
Broke the lines
Only the American Marine Corps stopped them
The Battle of the Argonne Forest
The Allied counter attack
Battle of the Meuse-Argonne
Germans begin to fall back
Cont.

6. Cont. American Heroes Alvin York Eddie Rickenbacker
Wanted to be a contentious objector
Attacked a German machine gun
Won the Congressional Medal of Honor
Eddie Rickenbacker
Pilot in the Army Air Corps
First “Ace”
5 or more kills (he finished with 26)
Not even close to the best
The “Red Baron” (Manfred von Richthofen) w/ 80+
Cont.

7. The War Ends October 1918 Austria-Hungary collapses
German Navy mutinies
The Kaiser Wilhelm flees
And the end
Armistice – a ceasefire to settle the treaty
Armistice Day – November 11th
We call this Veterans Day
The War Ends

8. A Flawed Peace A meeting is held outside Paris The 14 Points
They are writing the Treaty of Versailles
The “Big Four” are leading the negotiations
Russia isn’t invited
The 14 Points
Wilson’s plan for peace
3 themes
Eliminate causes of war
National self-determination
The League of Nations
A Flawed Peace

9. Cont. The Treaty of Versailles
European people love Wilson, not leaders
They ignore his 14 Points
They want to punish Germany
The treaty was very harsh
Britain & France got reparations
Lots of new countries are formed
Germany has many restrictions
Wilson got his League of Nations
Cont.

10. Cont. The US Senate Rejects the Treaty
The President negotiates treaties
The Senate Approves them
The Senate says no
They don’t like the League of Nations
Why would the Senate dislike the League?
Weakens our sovereignty
Wilson goes to the people
He has a stroke
We don’t end the war until Wilson leaves office
We NEVER joined the League of Nations
Cont.